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FILE - In this April 9, 2009 file photo, Northern State University's head basketball coach Don Meyer speaks at the 2009 Community Prayer Breakfast in Aberdeen, S.D. Meyer, one of the winningest coaches in college basketball who came back from a near-fatal car accident and liver cancer before closing out his career, died Sunday, May 18, 2014 in South Dakota. He was 69. (AP Photo/Aberdeen American News, Dawn Dietrich-Sahli, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2008 file photo, Northern State University men's basketball coach Don Meyer works on his upper body strength as he undergoes rehabilitation following a life threatening car crash at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D. Meyer, one of the winningest coaches in college basketball who came back from a near-fatal car accident and liver cancer before closing out his career, died Sunday, May 18, 2014 in South Dakota. He was 69. (AP Photo/Doug Dreyer, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2010 file photo, Northern State basketball coach Don Meyer talks with Northern forward Colin Pryor (24) during an NCAA college basketball game against Southwest Minnesota State, in Aberdeen, S.D. Meyer, one of the winningest coaches in college basketball who came back from a near-fatal car accident and liver cancer before closing out his career, died Sunday, May 18, 2014 in South Dakota. He was 69. (AP Photo/Doug Dreyer, File)
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FILE - This Jan. 10, 2009 file photo shows Northern State University men's basketball coach Don Meyer, second from the left, smiling as he celebrates his 903rd career victory, in Aberdeen, S.D. Meyer, one of the winningest coaches in college basketball who came back from a near-fatal car accident and liver cancer before closing out his career, died Sunday, May 18, 2014 in South Dakota. He was 69. (AP Photo/Aberdeen American News, John Davis, File)
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FILE - In a Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009 file photo, Northern State University Men's Basketball Coach, Don Meyer, shakes hands with a University of Mary player after he got his 903rd win, passing Bobby Knight as the NCAA's winningest coach in men's basketball history, in Aberdeen, S.D. Meyer, one of the winningest coaches in college basketball who came back from a near-fatal car accident and liver cancer before closing out his career, has died in South Dakota. He was 69. (AP Photo/Doug Dreyer, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2010 file photo, Northern State coach Don Meyer addresses the media after an NCAA college basketball game in Aberdeen, S.D., where he announced he would be retiring. Meyer, one of the winningest coaches in college basketball who came back from a near-fatal car accident and liver cancer before closing out his career, has died in South Dakota. He was 69. (AP Photo/Doug Dreyer, File)
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In this April 3, 2014 photo provided by Avera St. Luke's Hospital in Aberdeen, S.D., Carmen Meyer looks on as her husband, former basketball coach Don Meyer, speaks at the official launch of the new Coach Don and Carmen Meyer Center of Excellence, the future home of the Avera Cancer Institute in Aberdeen. Coach Meyer is currently under hospice care at home, but some of his core principles will live on in a cancer center. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Avera St. Luke's Hospital)
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In this April 3, 2014 photo provided by Avera St. Luke's Hospital in Aberdeen, S.D., former basketball coach Don Meyer and his wife, Carmen, look on as South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard speaks at the official launch of the new Coach Don and Carmen Meyer Center of Excellence, the future home of the Avera Cancer Institute in Aberdeen. Meyer is currently under hospice care at home, but some of his core principles will live on in a cancer center. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Avera St. Luke's Hospital)
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In this April 3, 2014 photo provided by Avera St. Luke's Hospital in Aberdeen, S.D., former men’s basketball coach Don Meyer and his wife, Carmen, light candles at the official launch of the new Coach Don and Carmen Meyer Center of Excellence, the future home of the Avera Cancer Institute in Aberdeen. Meyer is currently under hospice care at home, but some of his core principles will live on in a cancer center. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Avera St. Luke's Hospital)
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FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2010 file photo, Northern State coach Don Meyer addresses the media after an NCAA college basketball game in Aberdeen, S.D., where he announced he would be retiring. Meyer's family said in a statement Tuesday, May 13, 2014, that his health has been declining over the past several months, and after a three-day stay at a hospital with a feeding tube he is now at home in Aberdeen in hospice care. Meyer retired from coaching in 2010 with a then-NCAA record 923 victories in 38 seasons with Northern State, Lipscomb University in Tennessee and Hamline University in Minnesota. The native of Wayne, Neb., is 69 years old. (AP Photo/Doug Dreyer, File)
